... I always tell you that what is inherent in you is presently active and presently functioning, and need not be sought after, need not be put in order, need not be practiced or proven. All that is required is to trust it once and for all.
... Just because I wondered deeply, I later attained penetrating understanding.... If you do not reflect and examine, your whole life will be buried away.
... Realization obliterates the subject-object split; it's not that there's some mysterious principle besides.
... When you see, let there be no seer or seen; when you hear, let there be no hearer or heard; when you think, let there be no thinker or thought.
Foyan Qingyuan [1067-1120]
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Commentary and questions: First, what is the cause of the subject-object split? Second, if there is to be no distinction between seer or seen as Foyan says, then to whom is this mind revealed through its reflections upon seeing? And third, what is truly being reflected in the appearance of the seen?
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This post was inspired by the generously introspective questions of /u/25point8069758011279.
Submitted November 19, 2019 at 08:17PM by WanderingRoninXIII https://ift.tt/2OqnoGj
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